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Angelia Vernon Menchan

Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan

Monday, March 17, 2008

To Read and Read Again...

Do you every re-read books?Many people say, no, too many books, too little time…I am a re-reader,Anything I really loved,I will re-read,Just Above My Head by James Baldwin – countless re-reads,Have not re-read in years, but will again,Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer read a few times,Pearl Cleage’s books, re-readable for sure,Blues Dancing by McKinney Whetstone, a few re-reads,And there are others,Sometimes a certain mood will lead me to re-read,Or if I am struggling with books I have and nothing is really grabbing me,I know where to go for a literary pick me up…Another reason for re-reading is when I wear my reviewer’s hat,The first scenario is when I read a book and I am trying to fairly review it,It just isn’t working for me but I want to review it fairly,I will give it another try...The other review re-read scenario is when I really liked it but was,Reading in critical review mode, which if done properly is completely different than reading for pleasure,So after I have read it, reviewed it and posted,I will go back and read in a more relaxed, less critical way,Then there are the deeper books,That I enjoyed but didn’t quite, completely understand,I love going at those again,To be able to see from different perspective,And to discover the layers that I was missing the first time around,Do you re-read?Please Share…

I re-read all the time, mostly because of the job. I usually teach a book more than once and I re-read it every time I teach it. And then there are books that are my all-time favorites that I go back and re-read just to see if the magic is still there. I love to re-read books. In fact if I really love a book I find a way to include it in class and teach it just so that I can really get all up in it. :-)

I have re-read books. Usually they are the books that were a little difficult to get through the first time. I go back later and see if I gain anything different than the first time. Sometimes I find it easier the second time around. And I get a better understanding.

Here lately I have re-read several things. When reading an author's finished manuscript with a critical eye, then going back and reading it just to enjoy it the proper way. Now I have a few books I know I wouldn't mind re-reading like some of my favorites from my high school days. Which for the normal high schooler would have been considered a difficult, uninteresting read, but for me it was a breath of literary bliss.

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